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I found this interesting: " [...] I think that rotating storage is going the way of the dodo (or the tape). [...] The latencies of rotational storage are horren

by FrojoS 14y ago

I found this interesting: " [...] I think that rotating storage is going the way of the dodo (or the tape). [...] The latencies of rotational storage are horrendous, and I personally refuse to use a machine that has those nasty platters of spinning rust in them. [...] " Is this about SSD vs. HDD? Does he favor SSD over HDD for Desktops? Personally, my 99% use time computer is a MacAir with 256 GB SDD, and I love how fast it is and that I don't have to worry about breaking a HDD. But having so little disk space is definitely a limitation to me. I would have expected, that Linus has a huge HDD in his desktop computer, maybe in combination with a SDD for speedup. Apart from price, isn't lifetime still a huge problem for SSDs? I was expecting HDDs to die out for Laptops but to be around for a long time on desktops.

davidw 14y ago
> I would have expected, that Linus has a huge HDD in his desktop computer, maybe in combination with a SDD for speedup. What for? The complete Linux git repository is less than one gig. /dev/sda1 141G 93G 42G 70% / That's me. If you mostly just do coding, you don't need gigs and gigs of space - for most things, at least. 256 GB would be more than enough for the immediate future, so I'll definitely put an SDD in my next computer.
- FrojoS 14y ago
  Yeah, that was my line of thinking, too. Hasn't turned out to be true for me. The 256 GB are quite limiting to me. Things that eat up a lot of space on my SSD: - eMail: dozen's of GB, but I wan't to be able to read them offline - Virtual Machine, I run Windows 7 with 50 GB allocated space - clumsy programs which eat a lot of disk space like Visual Studio - Videos that I record from experiments - recorded data from said experiments - when you record at 1kHz space goes up fast - mp3 music
  - davidw 14y ago
    So, basically things that gobble space are: * Audio and video files. That's to be expected. * Windows. My guess is that Linus doesn't have much to do with the latter, and probably doesn't use his work computer for the former.
    - Evbn 14y ago
      He explicitly said to put media on a NAS disk.
Evbn 14y ago
What's a desktop? Something like a server? ;-)

by FrojoS 14y ago

davidw 14y ago

> I would have expected, that Linus has a huge HDD in his desktop computer, maybe in combination with a SDD for speedup. What for? The complete Linux git repository is less than one gig. /dev/sda1 141G 93G 42G 70% / That's me. If you mostly just do coding, you don't need gigs and gigs of space - for most things, at least. 256 GB would be more than enough for the immediate future, so I'll definitely put an SDD in my next computer.

FrojoS 14y ago
Yeah, that was my line of thinking, too. Hasn't turned out to be true for me. The 256 GB are quite limiting to me. Things that eat up a lot of space on my SSD: - eMail: dozen's of GB, but I wan't to be able to read them offline - Virtual Machine, I run Windows 7 with 50 GB allocated space - clumsy programs which eat a lot of disk space like Visual Studio - Videos that I record from experiments - recorded data from said experiments - when you record at 1kHz space goes up fast - mp3 music
- davidw 14y ago
  So, basically things that gobble space are: * Audio and video files. That's to be expected. * Windows. My guess is that Linus doesn't have much to do with the latter, and probably doesn't use his work computer for the former.
  - Evbn 14y ago
    He explicitly said to put media on a NAS disk.

Evbn 14y ago

What's a desktop? Something like a server? ;-)